young professional partners » productivity http://roxyallen.com writing on the teachers, tools, and technology for gen y in the social sector Sun, 09 May 2010 22:50:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Read Faster: 10 Days to Faster Reading http://roxyallen.com/2009/08/how-to-read-faster-10-days-to-faster-reading/ http://roxyallen.com/2009/08/how-to-read-faster-10-days-to-faster-reading/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:00:00 +0000 Roxy http://roxyallen.com/2009/08/how-to-read-faster-10-days-to-faster-reading/

Gen Y is great at handling information overload.  One of the ways we handle this is by scanning material to read it faster.

If you are not quite there on quickly scanning info on the web and print, this interview will help you.

I recently interviewed Abby Marks Beale of The Corporate Educator about how to read faster.

Here are the highlights from her book, 10 Days to Faster Reading.

I thought I’d share the tips with you so you don’t have to read the whole book.

Here is my audio interview with her if you’d like to listen to it, but otherwise check out my presentation below.

10 Days To Faster Reading: My Fast, Favorite Tips
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I co-led a session with Bill Lester of EngenderHealth and NPOKI at my organization’s annual member’s meeting. I thought I’d share my list of tools at large. It comes from months of finding tools that help me implement GTD. For our session, I went over the list below and the GTD quick reference. (Here’s my secret: my fav tools are still a legal pad and pen). What are the tools you use?

Personal Tools

Outlook
To process, automate, and file

Tips:
Create subfolders
Filter messages
Set reminders in your calendar or tasks
Set up general accounts like info@ for a team to manage

To-Do Lists
To remember
Remember the Milk
Evernote
Google Tasks

Meeting Scheduler
To schedule meetings easily
Doodle
TimetoMeet
Diarised

Online Backup Systems
In case your computer crashes
Mozy
Carbonite

Collaboration & Communication
Project Management
To track and communicate

Excel
Google spreadsheets – templates
Zoho
Basecamp

Wikis
To collaborate quickly
PBworks
Google sites

File Sharing / Syncing
To store your files easily online and share
Dropbox

Screencasting/Screen Shots
To show people what you mean
Jing
Aviary
There’s always PrintScreen on PC’s
and Command+Shift+3 or 4 on Macs

Surveys
To gather info quickly, free
Google Forms
Survey Monkey

Other

Texter
To reduce repetitive typing – info in Life Hacker book and blog

News and Info Aggregation
To let the news come to you

Google Reader
For blog reading/RSS feeds

Netvibes
For social media RSS feeds – listening

Atomkeep
Automate your social media profilles

Further Reference
www.lifehacker.com
www.zenhabits.net
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Upgrade Your Life by Gina Trapani

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